Welcome Visiting Professor:
Dr. Gaston Nyirigira
Dr. Gaston Nyirigira is a Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist at King Faisal Hospital, Rwanda, and a leading expert in pain management. He chairs Postgraduate Medical Education at Africa Health Sciences University and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Rwanda.
Topic: “Health System Resilience in LMICs: Rwanda as a Case Study in Sustainable Innovation.”
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the core principles of health system resilience and their relevance to the global health workforce crisis projected for 2030.
- Examine Rwanda’s strategies for addressing health workforce shortages, such as task-shifting, training innovations, and interdisciplinary simulation, and evaluate their sustainability.
- Analyze how Rwanda’s approaches align with or diverge from the WHO Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 and consider their adaptability to other settings.
- Reflect on how lessons from Rwanda’s workforce development efforts can inform Canadian global health partnerships, training programs, and domestic rural/remote workforce planning. Promoting Knowledge Translation